General Chat

You are old when you can remember:

Black and White TV as the norm
Mothers 'walking' their children to school
The excitement at the arrival of BBC2
Children playing in the streets
Christmas starting in November not the middle of summer
The milkman, breadman and pop man all delivering to the door
Money back on empty pop bottles
TV closing down at 11pm with the National anthom and a reminder to ''please remember to turn off your set...good night'
Sundays with the shops closed and people sitting down together for lunch
Remembering to buy the dog licence
Outside loos
No hot water on tap
Red phone boxes
Party lines if you were lucky enough to have a phone at home
BT being part of the GPO and a 3 month waiting list to have a phone installed
Cigarette advertising being glamourous
Shops with a chair by the counter to sit on
The rag and bone man - he would give you a balloon as a kid if you gave him something
Summer holidays being days out or a trip to the seaside - abroad? you must be joking
Tin baths in front of the fire
Utility furniture
Radio grams
Mono
Men wearing suits and ties just to go shopping
Playgrounds in the parks (pre Health & Safety police)
Open air lidos
Police phone boxes
Buses with conductors and no door at the back!
Footballers appearing only on the sports pages not in the gossip columns
Footballers shaving their faces not their legs!
The newsreel at the cinema
Pearl & Dean Cinema commercials
Circus's with animals
Gay meant happy
Working mens clubs 'no women allowed'
Blackberrying
Bacolite being a modern marvel
Weekly pay in cash (the lovely little brown envelope)
Sweets by the ounce from big jars
Same scales used to weigh everything from sausage to cheese without cleaning!
Fish & Chips on a Friday evening from the chippy
Forces Favourtites on a Sunday lunchtime radio
and Sing Something Simple before bedtime
School milk - frozen in winter curdled in the summer!
Plus Adders - not calculators
No VAT
Half a Crown, Sixpence, Threppeny Bits and Farthings
Ten Bob notes
Out of town meant countryside not retail parks
Hospital Matrons ruling with a firm hand
Britain being Great
Britain having an Empire

Ah memories...guess it means I'm old

some great memories there col
we have still got a little shop where you can get sweet out of the jars,its a little gem

no comment lol

erm..yes..well

no comment...lol

I can remember about 4.....so I am young..

Working mens clubs 'no women allowed'

bring them back lol





runssssssssssss

lol I say nothing :)

OH NO Col does this mean I am getting OLD. LOL

I would vote for no shops open on sunday pubs kept to the old opening times...............................and Sunday being family day..

good lord I'm not that old and I can remember 3/4 of them lol

I'm with you Hayley.

i dont remember any

Omg has your memory gone Keith lol

lol

No cant remember any of those things

Oh gosh ... don't think I was born then! >>>>>>

Almost all of them.... sobs, but I only feel 30!

xx

So do I Rose
But didnt want to admit to it
lol

9 out of 52 (I think thats how many there are)
I still know of shops that have chairs by the counter.

I'm in my mid twenties the way I'd guess someone is younger than me is they can't remember life before

Mobile phones
The internet
Sky TV
Ipods/MP3 players
Channel 5 (to them theres always been 5 channels, sadly I remember its launch)

hides pension book and tries not to think about it......